A2.7

Geometry of Surfaces | Part II, 2004

(i) What is a geodesic on a surface MM with Riemannian metric, and what are geodesic polar co-ordinates centred at a point PP on MM ? State, without proof, formulae for the Riemannian metric and the Gaussian curvature in terms of geodesic polar co-ordinates.

(ii) Show that a surface with constant Gaussian curvature 0 is locally isometric to the Euclidean plane.

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